The road connect Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois
What is National Road
100
Hand goods from home changed to what?
What is machine made in factories
100
What years did the Industrial Revolution take place
What is 1876-1900
200
a machine that removes cotton seeds
What is cotton gin
200
Inventor of the light bulb in 1879 and the phonograph
Who is Thomas Edison
200
A New York businessman, brought this English "iron horse" to America
Who is Peter Cooper
200
invented a phone and a year later he started the Bell telephone company.
Who is Alexander G. Bell
200
The use of children in industry or business, esp. when illegal or considered inhumane
What is child labor
300
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, esp. one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection
What is telegraph
300
Builder of the first successful steamboat
Who is Robert Fulton
300
connected the port of New York with the Great Lakes
What is Erie Canal
300
first planned town for workers in the United States
What is Lowell, MA
300
The conditions in which an individual or staff works, including but not limited to such things as amenities, physical environment, stress and noise levels, degree of safety or danger, and the like.
What is Working conditions
400
A boat that is propelled by a steam engine, esp. a paddle-wheel craft of a type used widely on rivers in the 19th century
What is steamboat
400
professional artist, inventor of the electric telegraph, originator of Morse Code.
Who is Samuel Morse
400
made transportation and shipping on waterways much faster
What is the steamboat
400
Invented by Cyrus McCormick, this machine could cut up to four times as much grain as hand workers.
What is reaper
400
What were the working conditions like in the Industrial Revolution?
What is 10-14 hour/day, little pay, and no job security
500
The dramatic change from making goods by hand at home to making them by machine in factories.
What is Industrial Revolution
500
patented the first American made sewing machine
Who is Elias Howe
500
an improvement of transportation and shipping goods by land
What is the railroad
500
improved the plow so it would cut through the tough roots of prairie grass